The ability to describe something is an important aspect of English language learning so there are 270 'describing things' worksheets available to help students develop this skill. A student that is adept at providing descriptions will have the ability to carry on a conversation even without knowing the precise vocabulary words he or she wants to use. An example of this might be if a student is talking about cleaning out the attic but has forgotten or never learned the word attic. The student can describe a typical attic and explain its location within the house and still be able to clearly convey his or her meaning. A fun group activity that helps students practice this is posted here. On his or her turn, a student must choose a card and try to get group members to say the word on the card without saying the word and three other related words. This is a challenging and fun activity for intermediate students. You should feel free to edit or add cards and even change the rules of the game to suit your class. For more worksheets, browse through this section and dont forget to check out the warmers for short activities related to this topic.
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There are 4 activities for kids, they will revise toys and colours.
1-complete the words under the toys and find them in the wordsearch
2- look at the box and write the toys you find in it
3- r ...
This is a worksheet to practice vocabulary about electrical appliances and related vocabulary. Students are offered a series of sentences with descriptions of the use of diverse electrical applia ...
In this worksheet there is a series of photos of French dishes with the list of main ingredients (in French). The aim is to use expressions such as "it contains", "is made from", "consists of" to ...
This is another picture description about this family. There are 2 exercises. This time there are also true or false questions, and the second exercise is about inserting some basic prepositions. ...
This worksheet is to teach students the concepts of here, there, and over there when discussing the location of objects. A secondary purpose of this worksheet is to reinforce classroom vocabulary ...
Here is the next picture description worksheet. There is a big picture and two tasks -
1) answer the questions, and
2) choose true or false.
The exercises are not difficult. Present Continuous ...
This worksheet contains four different tasks which are all related to the picture description: 1) complete the sentences with Present Continuous 2) True or false, 3) Insert the correct prepositio ...
This material is aimed at elementary and pre-intermediate learners of English. There are two tasks - to say whether the statements are true or false, and to answer the questions (using the Presen ...
You go through the list with the students all the while you give examples of how to describe words in the different categories. While the students are doing the exercise at the bottom of the work ...
Writing: descriptions (places, people, clothes, animals...). Adjective order; opinion, size, age, shape, colour, origin, material, purpose, noun. Exercise: put the words in order. Parts of descrip ...
“ Susan in her Bedroom” is a simple worksheet for teaching prepositions and bedroom related furniture.
Students are asked to describe the room in the picture using prepositions.
This worksheet contains 75 cards with definitions for Flyers vocabulary items. These definitions were taken from sample tests (Reading and writing, part 1) and you can use them to play a vocabualr ...
This would help the students to grab the essence of using the adjectives as describing words. It also centers on the brainstorming for the students, which makes it an intentional effort, for them ...
Here is a simple lifeline to show 3 important junctures that will be used to compose mixed conditional sentences. Teaching mixed conditionals isn't such a difficult concept to teach but finding an ...
This is a worksheet about bedroom furniture, there (to be), some / any and prepositions. Includes several tasks in which students ask and answer questions about the picture, complete the sentences ...
It is my new ppt for my beginners. At the end of the school year they need to revise basic questions and answers they have learnt. They will play a game where one of the students is the interviewe ...
It is a useful speaking activity for your students using Ppt. Your students will need to work in pairs describing children's clothes. They will need to ask each other questions using Present Conti ...
A simple game of taboo. An even number of players from four to ten sit alternating around in a circle. Players take turns as the "giver," who attempts to prompt his or her teammates to guess as m ...
These pages are about materials. In the first exercise, students will have to say what these thingas are and what they are made from; in the second exercise, they will have to tick the properties ...
This Power Point presentation can be used for teaching both Appearance and Character. It consists of 8 slides, two of which I would suggest printing and putting on the board so that students could ...
This bright handout should be used for making notes while watching a segment from the famous film series “Sex and the City” which beyond all doubt boasts fabulous fashion and style. It ...
With the following word search puzzle, students will have a variety of different words found in different parts of a house. Based on this vocabulary, students then can use there is/there are effec ...
Here´s a worksheet dealing with bedroom and furniture vocabulary and some grammar topics such as prepositions of place, there + To Be, some and any, etc. Especially designed to develop stude ...
A Word search puzzle to check or revise movie/cinema vocabulary. With a special highlight to OSCAR Academy Awards. List of words used in this word search: STATUETTE, NOMINATION, ACADEMY, STAR, AC ...
Song "I'm blue". The first page contains the lyrics for the teachers to check, and in the second page there are different exercises for the same song. The students will recognize the vocabulary an ...
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